Thank you for the heads up, I am not following debian-devel@ these days. Please keep me on Cc.
[Guillem Jover] > The closest thing I'm aware of is isenkram, but re-checking it now, it > looks it's now tailored for hot-plugged hardware? Its README contains > interesting information on alternatives and similar solutions. CCed > Petter for further input. Not quite sure why you believe it is tailored for hot-plugged hardware. What should be updated to avoid such impression? It can definitely handle any package with hardware mapping in AppStream. Isenkram provide a background daemon 'isenkramd' for handling hot-plugged hardware, and various scripts for one off runs related to more fixed hardware. You can run 'isenkram-lookup' to get a list of packages suited for the currently identified hardware, 'isenkram-pkginstall' to get a interactive list of packages with the option to install them, 'isenkram-autoinstall-firmware' to automatically install the firmware relevant for the current machine, and even 'tasksel' after installing the isenkram-cli package to get a tasksel option to install all the packages listed by isenkram-lookup. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen